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Lollapalooza 2011 kicks off today in Chicago, chock full of some super-fun bands with loads of excellent music. Two of those bands have teamed up with Gowalla to give away free music when you experience Lollapalooza on Gowalla: Cults, and The Vaccines. So if you’re heading to…
Wynn caught up with Fredrik Holmström to talk about IronJS, F#, and open source in .NET.
Catch up with us at:
- TXJS, a day JavaScript, hacking, and Southern Charm in Austin, TX.
- Lone Star Ruby Conference V is now accepting proposals for talks. Have you submitted?
- RubyConf Argentina Save the date, Nov 8-9 in Buenos Aires
Items mentioned in the show:
- IronJS A JavaScript implementation for .NET written in F#
- Fredrik Holmström, creator of IronJS
- F# is a succinct, expressive and efficient functional and object-oriented language for .NET which helps you write simple code to solve complex problems.
- “This JScript thing”
- Mono is an open source, cross-platform, implementation of C# and the CLR that is binary compatible with Microsoft.NET.
- IronJS continues in the tradition of IronPython and IronRuby
- IronJS implements EcmaScript 3 but is working towards EcmaScript 5 support
- Miguel de Icaza created Mono.
- Nuget is a free, open source developer focused package management system for .NET.
- Codeplex seems to be the place to find .NET open source
- GitHub is hosting more and more .NET projects
- C# and .NET are hard to Google
- Kayak is an asynchronous HTTP server written in C#
- Zed Shaw, featured on Episode 0.3.4
- Don Syme, architect behind F#
- “John” Gietzen has contributed to IronJS.
- Follow @IronJS on Twitter for updates.
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I’m pleased to announce that we’ve just launched a substantial update to Forrst’s invite system.
We’ve employed an invite-only model since the early days of the site with a nice degree of success; it’s helped keep the community highly-focused, and ensured that only developers and designers are…
We’re hiring at Shelby.tv, like lots of other companies. So why come work with us? Because you want to put a dent in the universe. These are the things we do at Shelby…
- Work with (and watch tons of) online video
- Process updates in real time from a growing list of firehoses (twitter, facebook…)
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Since we launched Mozilla’s WebFWD accelerator program four short weeks ago we spoke with numerous people who either applied, were thinking about applying or who contacted us with questions and suggestions. One common comment we heard over and over again was: “The Bootcamp is great but I…
Greetings from Austin, home of the beloved Longhorns. We just rolled out 10 new stamps for University of Texas including Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium, Etter-Harbin Alumni Center, Blanton Museum of Art, Harry Ransom Center, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Bass Concert Hall, UT Austin Visitor Center, Student Activity Center, Texas Union, Visitor Center.
If you’d like to see custom stamps for your school or help spread the Gowalla gospel, holla at us via campus@gowalla.com.


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